The military demonstrated to the media the intercepted drones, including two serial quadcopters and an improvised UAV with a warhead. Their control and radio navigation channels had been jammed, resulting in a forced landing. According to the commander of the EW component at the Tartus naval base Denis Kulikov, a kind of C-UAV dome has been established in Syria.

“The Pole-21 jamming station and the Ratnik-Kupol system, which is designed to suppress UAV control channels, are used. The airspace here is also covered with the latest Russian EW systems capable of blinding the pilots of enemy aircraft. Targets are detected by the Krasukha S-4 system, while the shipborne TK-25 complex suppresses their integral radars,” said Kulikov.

Pole-21--The jammer

The Pole-21 EW system, designed by the NTC REB enterprise, has already been mentioned in the MoD’s news regarding its introduction into the Russian Armed Forces and its frequent use during the field exercises.

The system is designed to protect strategically important objects from cruise missiles, UAVs and guided aerial bombs through radio suppression of equipment binding them to global satellite and radio navigation systems.

According to the Russian MoD, Pole-21 allows an operator to establish up to 100 radio jamming posts in the covered zone, and is well adapted to different climatic conditions, being capable of functioning in a temperature range between -40 degree С and +50 degree C. The system can suppress GPS, Galileo, and BeiDou satellite navigation systems.